Re: overloading of ","

From:
Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@free.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:16:59 +0100
Message-ID:
<45f543cc$0$23659$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
josh a ?crit :

Hi, I coded the following but It does not return what I expect, why?

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class Other
{
public:
    int i;

    Other(int x=1)
    {
        i = x;
    }

    Other *operator-> () { return this;}

    Other &operator+ (Other t)
    {
        i += t.i;

        return *this;
    }

    Other &operator,(Other oth)
    {
        i = oth.i;

        return *this;
    }

};

int main()
{
    Other o0, o1, o2(4), o3(5);

    o0->i = 100;

    cout << o0.i << "\n" << o0->i << "\n";

       // HERE it returns 5 AND not 6 WHY ???????????????????
    Other ox = (o1 + o1, o3 = o2 + o1);

Because you have 5.
The expression evaluates:
Other ox = ( (o1 + o1) , (o3 = o2 + o1) );

Or with names
Other ox = o1.operator+(o1).operator,(o3.operator=(o2.operator+(o1)));

Since o3 is 5, then o1 is also 5 and ox is 5.

The reason is overloaded operator, doesn't have the same precedence as
POD operator,. Is is very confusing.

       // ------------------
    cout << ox.i << endl;

    return 0;
}


Michael

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